That means if they are unable to serve in a war zone or take part in a training or serve on a ship for months, then they must go.
Seems fair.
It would, if that actually applied here. There are already tests in place for those things that don't directly have anything to do with whether or not somebody's trans. The trans people in question had to pass such tests to get in in the first place, so if being trans means they're unfit to serve (which it certainly could, given how disruptive the treatment is), that's already taken care of. This is nothing more than a half-baked idea for earning brownie points among the gay-hating redneck part of Trump's fanbase (and it's working beautifully for that).
TheCyborgNinja posted...
I love that gender reassignment is being compared to gallbladder and shoulder surgery... Give me a f***ing break. I'm gonna need eye surgery from rolling mine so hard at that...
Untreated, gender dysphoria has a 37% suicide rate. That's a much higher mortality rate than a torn rotator cuff. Mental health treatment is no less legitimate than physical health treatment, despite what many would like to believe, and that includes treating gender dysphoria.
spooky96 posted...
What makes transgender people's medical expensive more than normal people?
All other things being equal, $30 worth of hormones a month for the rest of their lives, plus the potential costs of actually transitioning (though I would expect them to be taken off of active duty during that process, because it's pretty debilitating). Estimates put the annual costs associated specifically with transgender service members at 2.4-4.4 million, which isn't nothing, but it's hard to be seriously concerned about that when the military spent $80 million treating erectile dysfunction in 2014, and their total health budget that year was 45,000 million.
Except studies show that post-op trans people are even more prone to suicide, so that's obviously not the real problem. Google it. ---
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